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Sam Biddle

@sambiddle.com
21 posts
2026-03-06
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it's not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”  —  www.anthropic.com/news/where- s...
2026-03-06 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for his leaked memo

Yesterday (March 4) Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War confirming that we have been designated …

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it's not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”  —  www.anthropic.com/news/where- s...
2026-03-06 View on X
CNBC

Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk

Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …

2026-02-16
AI company “acceptable use” policies, constitutions, mission statements, etc are by and large worthless documents that should not be taken seriously.  —  www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
2026-02-16 View on X
Axios

Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits

2026-02-15
AI company “acceptable use” policies, constitutions, mission statements, etc are by and large worthless documents that should not be taken seriously.  —  www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
2026-02-15 View on X
Axios

Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits

The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …

2026-02-08
Well yeah their software is perfect, not much to spend on [embedded post]
2026-02-08 View on X
The Information

This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing

Big tech's dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms.

Well yeah their software is perfect, not much to spend on [embedded post]
2026-02-08 View on X
Sherwood News

Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B

One of these companies is not like the others.  —  If you've been following the Big Tech companies' earnings reports …

2026-02-07
Well yeah their software is perfect, not much to spend on [embedded post]
2026-02-07 View on X
Sherwood News

Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B

One of these companies is not like the others.  —  If you've been following the Big Tech companies' earnings reports …

2025-11-25
“Trick” is another extremely misleading anthropomorphic term we should probably all stop using in reference to LLMs (used here by Anthropic, not the Verge, to be clear) [embedded post]
2025-11-25 View on X
The Verge

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is “harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry” but isn't “immune” to such attacks

Hayden Field / The Verge :

“Trick” is another extremely misleading anthropomorphic term we should probably all stop using in reference to LLMs (used here by Anthropic, not the Verge, to be clear) [embedded post]
2025-11-25 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, saying it is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” and “meaningfully better at everyday tasks”

Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today.  It's intelligent, efficient …

2025-07-10
NEW: Buried inside the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is $6 billion for border security tech, including surveillance towers.  CBP just confirmed to me that this surveillance tower money can *only* go to Anduril, the Trump-friendly military contractor. theintercept.com/2025/07/09/ t...
2025-07-10 View on X
The Intercept

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new US border surveillance towers to be “autonomous”, effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on tower contracts

Anduril Industries is a major beneficiary of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes a section that essentially grants … Bluesky: @jesspish , @mmasnick , @eff.org , and @sam...

2025-05-17
Microsoft Investigates Microsoft, Clears Microsoft of Wrongdoing blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
2025-05-17 View on X
GeekWire

Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... Sam Biddle / @sambiddle.com : Microsoft Investigates Microsoft, Clears Microsoft of Wrongdoing blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... @jaybut707 : ...

2025-04-18
The CFPB is one of those things where like, virtually every single person in the United States would support its existence if they were told the truth about what it is/does.  Or used to do, I guess.  [embedded post]
2025-04-18 View on X
Wired

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to “delete”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees …

2025-03-14
I also already see Meta comms using this as evidence that the book is bullshit, when all the arbitrator found is that she may have violated her non-disparagement agreement, which is completely different.  Wild indeed.
2025-03-14 View on X
The Verge

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg.com : Guess what book I just bought!  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : this must be th...

2025-03-13
I also already see Meta comms using this as evidence that the book is bullshit, when all the arbitrator found is that she may have violated her non-disparagement agreement, which is completely different.  Wild indeed.
2025-03-13 View on X
The Verge

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.

2025-02-22
Unclear to me what the difference is between this and what Dataminr has been doing for years, aside from the fact that Dataminr's actual use of “AI” (versus humans pulling levers on the backend) has been pretty dubious www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...
2025-02-22 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI says it found evidence of an AI-powered surveillance tool used by a Chinese security operation to identify anti-China posts on social media in the West

The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.

2025-02-05
Now Google doesn't have to field questions about how it blatantly does not enforce its AUP  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-02-05 View on X
Washington Post

Google drops language from its AI Principles that said it would not pursue AI applications “likely to cause overall harm”, such as for weapons and surveillance

In 2018 the company updated its policies to explicitly exclude applying AI to weapons.  Now that promise is gone.

2025-01-08
The significance of the Meta fact checking thing isn't as much the substance of the announcement—little evidence “fact checking” really accomplished anything in the first place—but rather the company's overt effort to placate the American political right [embedded post]
2025-01-08 View on X
Fox News

Donald Trump says Meta has “come a long way” after the company announced it will end its fact-checking program, and that Meta's “presentation was excellent”

www.techpolicy.press/transcript- m... @futbolsound : The swagger of a dictator in full view.  The media will play into it, he'll continue to be insufferable, and the billionaires w...

The significance of the Meta fact checking thing isn't as much the substance of the announcement—little evidence “fact checking” really accomplished anything in the first place—but rather the company's overt effort to placate the American political right [embedded post]
2025-01-08 View on X
Platformer

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past

2025-01-07
Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the World and What Normal People Have Absolutely Any Interest in Whatsoever [embedded post]
2025-01-07 View on X
404 Media

Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed

But to be fair, this guy did upload his image into their AI filtering doodad.  So, y'know, those of us who eschew AI will not get randomly fucked with.  [embedded post] Sam Biddle ...

2024-12-18
This is potentially huge, but one consequence of years and years of anti-China Cold Warrior rhetoric out of the US gov't is it's become extremely hard to tell if something like this reflects a genuine threat or is just a product of more “national security” based Sinophobia and brinksmanship [embedded post]
2024-12-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: US officials are investigating Chinese router maker TP-Link, which has an estimated 65% US market share, and could ban the sale of its routers in 2025

TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks  —  U.S. authorities are investigating whether …